- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:23:05 +0200
- To: public-webapps@w3.org, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mozilla.com>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:10:53 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > On 3/28/12 10:42 AM, Glenn Adams wrote: >> Any use of DOMString to serve as a holder for arbitrary binary data >> (including inflating from UTF-8 bytes into 16-bit code units), should be >> specifically marked as such. > > For what it's worth, I would be reasonably happy if we had a > non-DOMString IDL type to indicate "raw byte sequence" strings, with > WebIDL defining byte-inflation as the conversion from such things to JS > strings... That's an interesting idea. We could also use that for open()'s method argument (as doing the opposite, throw for higher than U+00FF, then deflate). -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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